By Johnny Loftus April 29, 2009

Elizabeth Harper says she chucked the piano for her second album with the Matinee, instead centering its songs around electric guitar. Oh, and other electric things: While there was the shuffle of dusty heels on her first record, the sound of a singer-songwriter navigating her way through the jangle, nowadays Harper's high notes drift over pop songs addled with guitars, bits of electronic percussion, and the low-lying clouds of Manchester. Harper's songs could be love notes murmured into an answering machineanother electric thingbut it's nicest when she sighs like the fading sun behind a Brooklyn rooftop. With Coyote Eyes, pow wow!, and My Teenage... More >>>